Quotes By Sophie Ellis Bextor
But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?
Sophie Ellis Bextor
A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.
Sophie Ellis Bextor